Web-holding device for wage-scales, &amp;c.



Patented luly 2, |901.

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A. B. HAnMoN.

WEB HOLDING DEVICE FR WAGE SCALES, 81.6.

(No Model.)

no. 677,412 ranma July 2, 190|.

A. B. HAMON. WEB HOLDING DEYICE FOR WAGE SCALES, 61.0.

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UNITED STATES Y* PATENT l @Finca ANAN B. HARMON, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.V

WEB-HOLDING DEVICE FOR wAeE-soALEs, ew.

SPECFEGATEON forming partof Letters Patent No. 677,412, dated July 2, 1901.

' l Application tied April 5k, 1900. Y serial No. 11,752. (No man.)

To all whom, traag/concern: Y

Be it knownfthatL-ANAN B. HARMON, of

Rochesteig'in the county of Monroe and State.

of New York, have invented certain new and luset'ul Improvements infWeb #Holding Def n vices for Wage-Scales',InterestfTablea the.;

and I do hereby declare the kfollowing to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionfot theV same, reference being had to the accompany-Y ing drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the reference-numerals marked thereon. v

My present invention relates'to the device for carrying and moving-sheets or exible webs containing tablesor numbers, such as wage or interest tables, adapted to be used in connection with a scalev or index, so that the operator after adjusting the sheets in proper relation to the scale or index may determine at a glance the amount of wages or interest due at a certain rateand for a certain specified period of time. Theapparatus itseli is particularly adapted for use in connection with scales or indices; but it may be used for holding and operating Webs or sheets containing any desired markings or pictures, &c., which it is desirable` or Vnecessary to-display ata certain point, either with or without a cooperating scale or index, all as willbe hereinafter described, and the novel features pointed out in the claims at the end of this specification.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan View of a wage-computing device constructed inaccordance'with my invention, `a portion of the casing being brokeny away to show the Webs and rollers beneath; Fig. 2, a cross-sectional View on the line ci a of Fig. l; Fig. 3, a crosssectional View on the line b b of Fig. l looking downward; Fig. 4, a cross-sectional view on the line cc of Fig. 1; Fig.`5, a horizontal sectionaly view on the line d d of Fig. 4; Fig. 6, a longitudinal sectional view on the line e e of Fig. l; Fig. 7, a detached view ot' the webor sheet containing the tables or mark cto be exhibited.

Similar reference-numerals in the several figures indicate similar parts.

Inthe present embodiment of my invention I have shown the apparatus provided with two Webs or continuous sheets (indicated by l.) for containing the tables, said sheets being printed upon bothsides, as shown in Fig. 7, and Ir therefore 4provide an inclosing cas-V ing, (indicated by 2,) having at its upper side four apertures 3, in proximity to which the surface of the sheets or webs are adaptedto be held to permit readyin'speetion of the figures or numbers contained on the sheets, in connection with certa-in indicating or index yslips 4, arranged on the sides of said aper' tures, as shown in Fig. 3. The lower edges ofthe casing rest upon and cooperate with a base-board 5, upon which the operating parts of the device are mounted. As the general construction and operation of both webs or sheets are the same, a description of one of them will answer for both.

The ends of the webs l are attached to rollers or drums 6,-having at oneend journals or pins 6l, operating in apertures formed in suitable bearing-plates, and at the other ends the said The outer ends of the studs 7 are secured rigidlyv to gear-wheels l0, arranged inside of the bearing-plates, and the gears on adjacent rollers carrying the same web intermesh, so as to cause their operation in opposite directions.

The web extends from one of the rollers 6 up y over a guide roller or su pport ll, held in bearings just beneath the slot 3 in the casing, thence down beneath the other roller 6, thence u p over the otherguide-roller ll, thence downward again, and is attached to the corresponding roller 6 of the pair. The guides or rollers l1 are simply for the purpose of bringing the slots or apertures in the casing close together and allowingthe web-rollers to be brought close together to cause the gears to intermesh and also to engage with the operating-gear. The spring connection between the rollers and their operating studs or pins 7, being, in effeet, between the ends of the web and the rollers, is simply for the purpose of keeping the belts or webs taut, and the manner of running the webs (shownV clearly in Fig. 4) is such that the printing or marking on one side of the web is exposed through one of the apertures 3 (say the one next the edge of the casing) andy the markings Aor figures on the other side ofthe web are exposed through the l next adjacent'slot or aperture 3, and by this arrangement I am enabled to employ a single web printed upon. both sides,vso that the tigures or marks are visible and may be consulted and manipulated Without the necessity of employing an extra long web or sheet or Aoperatimg the web a long distance when it is desired to consult the guresor tables representing Widely-separated numbersor days.

, As stated, I preferably employ two separate Webs in the presentfembodimenand the support for the rollers'of each 'web is com'r'iosedv of a single metalplate 12, bent up at the ends lto'form suitable apertures for receiving the lstuds on the ends of the ro'llers and above these the open slots 12 forthe reception vof pins or journals at the ends of the guiderollers 11, the lower e'dges'of said plates be ing laterally extendedsomewhat vto engage with. the undercut blocks or strips ,14 on the base-board or support 'of' the casing, so that `the supports carrying the rollers may beremo'ved from the base by-sliding them longitudinally when the casing is' removed. At one end of the outside roller 6 of each pair and preferably outside of the end of the supporting-plate 12 are provided gears 15and secured to the base-plate is a bracket 16, havving journaled in its upper portion aspindle or arbor 17, provided at its outer end'with a 'knob or handle Alland inside the bracket-With the gear 19, meshing with both the gears 15 on the ends of the spindles (i. It willbe under'- stood that by turning thev operating handle or knobv18 all of the web-rollers may be turned tobring successive portions of A.the Web or. Webs 1n position beneath the openings 3 of the casing.

-As before stated, the Webs or sheets may bear any suitable marks or numbers; 'but for Wage' scale I preferV to print upon them transverselyextending rows of gures indicating 'the rate of Wages per hour from four cents per hour upward, and in lines extending longitudinally of the web figures or numbers indicating the dierent amounts due each successive hour at the rates indicated by the figures in the Iii-st column. In each of the columns extending transversely of the v web and about midway thereof are arranged certain figures from 1 to 100, or more, if

` desired, and preferably in large type, represen-ting the number of hours for which the figures or amounts in the colun'in above and The scale on one below Vit indicate Wages. side of each of the slots 3 inthe casing-say at the lef t-hand side-contains a column of gures corresponding in' number and position to the transverse columns on the web and in dicating the amount of Wages per Week of sixty hours at the rate which is shown in the next column on theY scale to the left. On the right-hand side oit' each of the apertures 3 is arranged a scale, the figures thereon being inline with the longitudinal rows on the web,

" indicating theamount o f lWages for-each quarter of an hour, half an boum-and three-quarters of an hourat the rate per hour indicated in the first column of the scale in line'therewith on the other side of the slot or aperture printed Words designating the various columns orscales-to Wit, in the-irst column y 3. At the center of 'the two scales and in line with the center large 'gurefsl of the web are the Words .Rate per hour in the next, col- 'ii'rnn Rate per Week, indicating a quar ter of an hour, and Tl-, and indicating one-half4 and three-quarters of an hour, respectively, as shown particularly in Fig. 1.

In using the device it is only necessary for the operator in figuring up the amount due a- ',Workman to ascertain'the number of hours he has Worked and the rate per Week or pervhour,v

Then byl manipulatinglthe handle 18 and turning the-Web or webs until the appropriate num ber. of hours indi asfthe case `may be,

cated by the central gures on the `Web isin 'y line Wit'h-thev slot' or aperture, and then the gures on the Web in linewith the rate per hour or per-Week will be visible through "the slot, and if the Workman'has been present for' ia' fraction'of an hourit is only necessary to addtothe amount shown in the slot inthe casing the amount indicatedin theappropriate column at the right of the slot. -Thus if the rate per Weekivere thirteen dollars and a Workman has been present vten and onehalf hours there Will be due him $2.17, Whichisthe number vshown upon the'web in line with the central figure 10, indicating ten hours and opposite vthe figure indicatf` ing. thirteen dollars per Week, to which must be added eleven cents for the half-hour indicated by the ligure appearing in the'second IOO column of the scale to the right-of theV slot,

the total being two 'dollars and twenty-eight y cents. v

Instead of having both of the Webs marked and with the figures indicating the rate of wages, it Will be understood that upon one side of one Web may be indicated wage rates from one hour to fifty and on the other side from fifty to one hundred, and upon the other Web may be arranged interest-tables or other indications, as desired.

A single web can" be used, if desired, the

casing being made half the Width shown and oneof the Webs and rollers only being capable of operation from the exterior 'of the casing, and although Lprefer to use both sides of the web the'printing 'on one side could be dispensed with and the Web extended from one roller 6 over one roller 11 and then attached directly to the other roller 6.-

When the Casin g is removed from the base, the Webs can be changed or removed by lifting out the guide-rollers v11or, if desired, the frames l2, carrying the rollers,1nay be re- IIC moved bodily by sliding them longitudinally v ofthe base-plate.

I claim as my invention--V 1. Ina Web-holding device, the combination f ing an aperture therein, of a removable holding-frame and Web-holding rollers journaled therein, said frame being detachable from the base bya longitudinal movement, and a web attached at its ends Vto the rollers and guided in proximity to the aperture in the casing.

2. In a Web-holdingdevice, the combination with a base, and a removable casing coperating with the base and having an aperture therein, of a removable frame in the casing having Webholding rollers, a web or sheet connected to the rollers, guides for holding the Web in proximity to the aperture in the casing, and a roller-operatingdevice on the base detaehably engaged with one of the Webrollers. f

3. Ina Web-holding device, the combination with a base, a removable casing coperating With thebase and having'an aperture there-k in, of a removable yframe in the casing, the

Web-holding rollers journaled therein, a web or sheet attached at its ends to the rollers, and guides for the web, a gear on one of said rollers, an operating-gear on the base adapted to engage with the roller-gear and a stationary frame or bracket mounted on the base and supporting the operating-gear.

4. InaWeb-holdingdevice, the combination with a base, thebracket thereon, andthe operating-gear mounted onthe bracket, of the removable casing having the aperture, the

. frame detachably connected to the base, the

Web-rollers geared together and mounted. thereon, thegea-r on one of the rollers adapted to mesh with the operating-gear, and a web connected to the rollers. v

5. In a Web-holding device, the combination With a base, an operating-gear thereon, and a removable casing havingk apertures, of two pairs of rollers arranged in the easing, `the rollers of each pairbeing geared together and one roller of each engaged by the operatinggear and webs or sheets connected to each roller.

6. The combination with the casing, of a removable frame therein embodying the plates at the ends, having open bearings at thetop, supporting-rollers in the bearings, tWo rollers jonrnaled in the plates, gearing connecting them, and a Web having markings on both sides connected at its ends to the rollers and. extending over thesnpports successively with both sides outwardly, V

7. The combination with abase having the guides, a frame supported on and movable longitudinally of the guides, the rollers journaled in the frame and connected for simultaneous operation in opposite directions, of the Web-sheethaving markings upon its opposite sides connected at its ends to the rollbracket supporting the latter and secured to the base.

S. The combination with a base having the guides,aframe movably supported on the base and held by the guides, the rollers supported in the frame and provided with intermeshing gears upon one end, and the gear upon the opposite end of one ofthe rollers, of the operating-gear supported in bearings stationary on -the base, the Web, having markings upon its opposite sides connected at its opposite ends tothe rollers, and the removable casing cooperating With the base and inclosing the parts and provided With the apertures arranged above the rollers.

, 9. The combination With a base, secured thereon, the rollers jonrnaled in the frame having the intermeshing gears upon one end, andthe gear upon the opposite` end of one of the rollers, of the operating-gear supported on the base and meshing With the Vlast-'mentioned gear, the sheet or Web having the markings upon its opposite sides connected at` its ends to the rollers, the removable easing cooperating with the base and inelosing the parts and provided with the slots or apertures above the rollers, andthe handle connected tothe operating-gear extending to the exterior of the easing.

l0. The combination with a base having the guides, a frame movablyattached to the base by said guides, andthe rollers supported in the frame, the sheet or web having markings upon itsopposite sides connected at its ends to the rollers, the guides: for said sheet jonrnaled in the frame above the rollers, and the intermeshinggears arranged upon one end of the latter, ofthe gear mounted upon the op-V Aoperation in oppositek directions, and sheetsv or Webs having markings thereon connected at their ends to the rollers of each pair, of an operating-gearsupported in a bearing mounted onthe base, pinions arranged upon one of the rollers of each pair engaging the gear, whereby the separate Webs may be operated together, and a removable casing inclosingy the parts and provided With the slots above each roller.

ANAN B. HARMON.

W'itnesses:

F. F. CHURCH, G. WILLARD RICH.

a frame ers, the gear upon one of the rollers, an op-l Yerating-gear engaging therewith, and `a loo IIC 

